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Definition of Fag end
1. Noun. The time of the last part of something. "The tail of the storm"
2. Noun. The frayed end of a length of cloth or rope.
Definition of Fag end
1. Noun. (alternative form of fag-end) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fag End
Literary usage of Fag end
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"It seems that this agriculturist professes to have accomplished all these
extraordinary results with what he very elegantly terms the "fag end" of a set of ..."
2. The Age of Anne by Edward Ellis Morris (1886)
"FAG-END OF THE WAR. OF the two men who were now the leading advisers of the queen
and acknowledged chiefs of the Tory party, '"cy. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"He must sink, not the consciousness, but the application of his powers, using
only the fag-end of them in an actual sense, an a ¡ion would his paw or his ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1881)
"27, 1871, and March 2 (bis), 4, 7, 8 : “ The Fag-End of the Question ; or Questions
for the Fag to End. Second and enlarged edition,” Times, March 29, ..."
5. Uganda for a Holiday by Frederick Treves (1910)
"CHAPTER III THE fag end OF THE WORLD ADEN is reached at night at an hour so late
that little can be seen of the place but the lights of the town. ..."
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